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Tradeintelligency.com – Trade Intelligence

Posted by admin On October - 26 - 2010
Company tradeintelligency
http://www.tradeintelligency.com
Founded: 2010
City: los angeles, California
Country: United States
CEO: Torleif Walker
Founders: Torleif Walker
Category: Data/Analytics Funding: Self-Funded
Tags: Employees: 6-15

What does tradeintelligency do?

The Fast and Easy Way to Get the Competitive Advantage
Find out information about your competitor’s shipments instantly online. Find out who their suppliers are and what these suppliers are shipping – and how much. Or, track your own shipments. Interested in getting an edge on the competition? You’re in the right place. Get ahead of the game with Trade Intelligency. Become a subscriber and start making big changes in the way you do business today

How are they different?

Efficient, accurate and daily import and export datas from US customs

Why could tradeintelligency be BIG?

That information can be shared to all companies in the world

How they plan to make money:

Getting monthly recurrent subscriptions

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.tradeintelligency.com
6-15, Data/Analytics, Self-Funded

ImportGenius.com – Competitive Intelligence Tools For The Import Export Industry

Posted by admin On September - 1 - 2010
ImportGenius.com - Competitive Intelligence Tools for the Import Export Industry Logo   Company Import Genius
    http://www.importgenius.com
  Founded: 2006
  City: Scottsdale, Arizona
  Country: United States
  CEO: David Petersen
  Founders: David Petersen
Category: Data/Analytics   Funding: Bootstrapping
Tags: import data   Employees: 2-5
         

What does Import Genius do?

ImportGenius offers data on imports and exports to help importers make buying decisions.

How are they different?

We offer more detailed factory data than our competitors.

Why could Import Genius be BIG?

In the long run, we could be as valuable as Alibaba to potential importers.

How they plan to make money:

Selling subscriptions to our data

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.importgenius.com
2-5, Bootstrapping, Data/Analytics

Power2Switch.com – Search Switch Save On Your Electricity

Posted by admin On August - 11 - 2010
Power2Switch.com - Search Switch Save on your electricity Logo   Company Power2Switch
    http://www.Power2Switch.com
  Founded: 05/05/2009
  City: Chicago,Il, Illinois
  Country: United States
  CEO: Seyi Fabode
  Founders: Seyi Fabode, Phil Nevels
Category: Data/Analytics   Funding: Bootstrapping
Tags: Electricity, price comparison, B2B   Employees: 2-5
         

What does Power2Switch do?

Power2Switch offers a web-based portal that allows commercial electricity customers to seamlessly compare and switch electricity suppliers for the purpose of saving money on their electricity costs and assessing renewable energy.

How are they different?

Power2switch enables full contract completion via the Internet and shortens the processing time from days (through traditional brokerage methods) to minutes. We also provide analytics and insight to both the customers (utilizing their historic data that we automatically retrieve from market Databases) and the suppliers (providing predictive analytics for better price forecasting).

Why could Power2Switch be BIG?

The service can be provided in 15 retail electricity states in the US (with possibility to move into other states), we are rolling out a gas price comparison platform (for all US states) and are currently working on data analytics packages for smart meters.

How they plan to make money:

We currently charge the suppliers a monthly commission per kWh of usage (for the life of a contract) for every customer who switches their service through Power2Switch. We also charge for reports and analytics providing market insight to the suppliers.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.Power2Switch.com
2-5, Bootstrapping, Data/Analytics

Ninetechnology.com – Online Backup and Recovery Solution for MSP’s

Posted by admin On August - 3 - 2010
ninetechnology.com - Offering MSPs an online backup and recovery solution designed for them Logo Company Nine Technology
http://ninetechnology.com
Founded: 04/26/2010
City: Middleboro, Massachusetts
Country: United States
CEO: Tom Gelson
Founders: Tom Gelson, Alex Stoev
Category: Data/Analytics Funding: Angel
Tags: online backup, data storage, disaster recovery, business continuity, MSPs, vars, OEMs Employees: 6-15

What does Nine Technology do?

We’ve created a new online backup and recovery software and system that enables managed service providers to provide these critical backup solutions to their clients and customers with high margins and impeccably reliable service.

How are they different?

For one, as the spin-out of a MSP, Nine Technology knows the pain points that managed service providers experience when trying to offer data backup solutions, and we designed our “Powered by Nine” system around that: our system is uniquely scalable based on our R.A.I.N. architecture, it’s completely white-labeled, and it’s easy to implement and control.

The Nine Technology solution features restore rates exponentially faster than those of other backup providers, and in an era where data downtime can spell the end of a small or medium-sized business, that speed really defines “business continuity”.

Why could Nine Technology be BIG?

Our system’s unique feature set and functionality goes well beyond the business backup capabilities of other providers. Combined with the excellent margins we provide to MSPs through our partner program, clients can offer a robust and affordable online backup solution that scales to meet their needs.

How they plan to make money:

A common saying around the office is that of the people who back up their data, only 5% of them do it online. We want to convince that other 95% that tape-based backup systems are problematic in a whole host of ways. Online backup is a safer, quicker, and more efficient use of storage space than tape.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://ninetechnology.com
6-15, Angel, Data/Analytics

Pontiflex.com – Specializing In Transparent, Sign-Up Advertising Technology.

Posted by admin On July - 29 - 2010
pontiflex.com - technology company which specializes in transparent, sign-up advertising technology. Logo   Company Pontiflex Inc.
    http://pontiflex.com
  Founded: April 2008
  City: Brooklyn, New York
  Country: United States
  CEO: Zephrin Lasker
  Founders: Zephrin Lasker,
Category: Data/Analytics   Funding: VC
Tags: sign up ads, permission-based advertising, email marketing, transparency   Employees: 16-30
         

What does Pontiflex Inc. do?

Pontiflex’s technology makes advertising relevant by connecting people to the brands that matter to them.

Pontiflex lets consumers sign up for ads on Web sites, social media apps and blogs and get deals and information from brands and organizations that they like. Advertisers only pay for the leads – the actual data from consumers that have signed up to hear from them.

How are they different?

Key Differentiators:
Integrity: From the quality of the data to the interaction with consumers it allows its customers to have, Pontiflex brings integrity to the world of online advertising.
100% opt-in
You have the control, the choice
Transparency
Privacy
Security
Respect
Scalable, opt-in/clean data
Publisher quality

Relevance: The right information, on the right sites, for the right consumers. Pontiflex’s data is guaranteed to be relevant to the marketer’s objectives and long-term success.

Connection between the brand and “like organic” consumers
Mutually beneficial
Long-term relationships and connections
Data exclusive to brand

Leadership: A proven partner working with some of the world’s most respected companies, Pontiflex brings innovative technologies together with a deep knowledge of the digital advertising and media worlds.
Experience: This is what we were born to do
Knowledge of emerging media
A resource guide, a teacher
Stable, viable

Why could Pontiflex Inc. be BIG?

So many of us use Pontiflex in our lives without even realizing it:

By signing up to receive information via online ads, people get what they want from the advertisers or non-profit organizations. This combination of permission-based data collection and data-management technologies coupled with industry-specific marketing leadership enables Pontiflex to build a mutually beneficial bond between the marketer and their target audiences, providing new revenue opportunities and creating a better overall brand experience.

How they plan to make money:

By aiming to capitalize on our differentiators in the cost-per-lead marketplace, to be a leader and authority in relevant, permission-based data collection for our clients.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://pontiflex.com
16-30, Data/Analytics, VC

LogicMonitor.com – Automated Data Center Monitoring As SaaS

Posted by admin On July - 28 - 2010
LogicMonitor.com - Automated data center monitoring as SaaS Logo   Company LogicMonitor LLC
    http://www.LogicMonitor.com/
  Founded: 2007
  City: Santa Barbara, California
  Country: United States
  CEO: Steve Francis
  Founders: Steve Francis, Jie Song
Category: Data/Analytics   Funding: Angel
Tags: data center, monitoring, saas, automated monitoring   Employees: 6-15
         

What does LogicMonitor LLC do?

IT monitoring focusing on data center class equipment, providing unique automation, ease of use and power.

How are they different?

Both ease of use and power.
With the SaaS model and all the built in knowledge and automation, people can deploy complete production monitoring of a whole datacenter within an hour. The system knows what to monitor, so the end users don’t have to.
There is lots of power, so users can easily add rules that classify nodes, or even volumes on shared storage, automatically as production, or QA, for example, and automatically apply different thresholds and escalations. And view all the aggregated data in dashboard graphs.
And all these rules and aggregations apply to the whole infrastructure – add a new storage array, and LogicMonitor can automatically discover it, classify all the volumes to the right stage, set the appropriate thresholds and alert routing, and add the volumes to the right dashboard graphs.
We also cover the whole datacenter – from physical servers, to virtualization platforms, to windows/linux (or other) operating systems, to applications (MySQL, SQL Server, nginx, apache, Tomcat) to network gear and storage and the cloud.

Why could LogicMonitor LLC be BIG?

We ran datacenters for years, and this is what we always wanted, and never found.
With virtualization and cloud adoption, datacenters are even more dynamic, and only automated systems can hope to provide adequate monitoring.
LogicMonitor lets our customers free up staff time to deal with growing infrastructure, while providing better monitoring than they’ve ever had.
And with more companies expanding datacenters, while limiting staff growth – SaaS automated monitoring that can cover the whole infrastructure is taking off.

How they plan to make money:

Monthly/annual subscriptions based on number of devices covered.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.LogicMonitor.com/
6-15, Angel, Data/Analytics

MI46.com – The Michigan InterState 46 Stock Index

Posted by admin On July - 22 - 2010
mi46.com - The Michigan InterState 46 Stock Index Logo   Company Exchange Data Systems Inc
    http://www.mi46.com
  Founded: august 4, 2004
  City: Lansing,, Michigan
  Country: United States
  CEO: Edwin L Poling Jr
  Founders: Edwin L Poling Jr
Category: Data/Analytics   Funding: Self-Funded
Tags:     Employees: 1
         

What does Exchange Data Systems Inc do?

We compile, calculate and publish the results for the 46 publicly traded companies headquartered within the geographical boarders of Michigan.

How are they different?

No other company publishes a state indices for any state in the USA we’re aware of.

Why could Exchange Data Systems Inc be BIG?

The economic value alone of the information to traders, investors and institutions.

How they plan to make money:

Sponsorships, historic data, broadcast rights, advertising, and if need be memberships.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.mi46.com
1, Data/Analytics, Self-Funded

SeatGeek.com – Forecast Sports And Concert Ticket Prices On The Resale Market

Posted by admin On July - 22 - 2010
SeatGeek.com - Forecast sports and concert ticket prices on the resale market Logo   Company SeatGeek
    http://seatgeek.com
  Founded: 09/14/2009
  City: New York, New York
  Country: United States
  CEO: Russell D’Souza & Jack Groetzinger
  Founders: Russell D’Souza, Jack Groetzinger
Category: Data/Analytics   Funding: VC
Tags: Ticketing, metasearch   Employees: 6-15
         

What does SeatGeek do?

SeatGeek forecasts how sports and concert ticket prices move on secondary ticket markets like Razorgator, Ebay, and Stubhub. The company’s patent-pending algorithm is 80-85% accurate in determining how ticket prices move. SeatGeek also aggregates tickets from brokers and ticket markets, allowing consumers to easily find the best deal on tickets without visiting multiple sites

How are they different?

The resale market is a $15 Billion / year industry but there are few metasearch companies and none that focus on analytics and forecasting. By understanding how ticket prices fluctuate, users can save hundreds of dollars on ticket purchases

Why could SeatGeek be BIG?

The resale ticketing market bears resemblance to the online airline space. Metaserach has been extremely successful with companies like Kayak. SeatGeek takes its inspiration from Farecast, (now Bing.com/travel), an airline price predictor and aggregator acquired by Microsoft for $115M. Farecast forecasts how airline ticket prices move, but does not look at event ticketing

How they plan to make money:

SeatGeek earns revenue on ticket commissions. We earn an affiliate of 8-12% whenever a user buys tickets via SeatGeek. Our average transactions is ~$250 which means we earn usually around $20 in commissions / ticket purchase

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://seatgeek.com
6-15, Data/Analytics, VC

Tynt.com – Track Copy/Paste Actions With Detailed Analytics

Posted by admin On July - 21 - 2010
  Company Tynt Multimedia Inc.
    http://www.tynt.com
  Founded: 2007
  City: Calgary, Non-US
  Country: Canada
  CEO: Derek Ball
  Founders: Derek Ball, co-founder
Category: Data/Analytics   Funding: VC
Tags: SEO, search, Web services, web analytics, copy/paste, online publishers, content websites   Employees: 16-30
         

What does Tynt Multimedia Inc. do?

Tynt’s patent-pending technology anonymously detects copy/paste behavior of website visitors, enabling online content owners to understand exactly which content their visitors find most engaging and how they are sharing it. Site owners (content publishers mostly) can turn this copy/paste behavior into a powerful asset that:
1) drives incremental visits by automatically appending a link back to the original source of content each time copied content is pasted into an email or other document;
2) boosts site visibility and enhances SEO and search engine rank by propagating valid high quality links back to their site; and
3) extends the reach of brands by ensuring publishers receive credit each time their content is copied.

Tynt Insight carefully retains visitor privacy by tracking only content that is copied; it does not capture any identifiable information about the site visitor. The base Tynt Insight service can be implemented by any website or blog at no cost.

How are they different?

Tynt developed a one-of-a-kind user engagement tool that lets content sites ( publishers) increase site visits and maximize revenue through insight into how their content is being consumed and shared. Tynt’s unique patent-pending technology anonymously captures data on all copy activities, providing pinpoint accuracy on what content is most engaging, and drives incremental site visits through automatic attribution links when copied information is pasted.

Why could Tynt Multimedia Inc. be BIG?

Already more than 500,000 publishers are using it to analyze 10 billion page views per month. Users include The New York Daily News, CondeNast, Daily Mail, Hearst, NASDAQ, NBC, and Time properties, as well as Sports Illustrated, The San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Men’s Health, The New Yorker, Seventeen and Wired magazine and other household brands.

How they plan to make money:

Tynt Insight is free and will continue to be free. Company plans to make money via an upcoming service that involves onsite search and financial arrangements with the big search engines.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.tynt.com
16-30, Data/Analytics, VC

RJMetrics.com – Hosted Business Intelligence For Web-Based Businesses

Posted by admin On July - 20 - 2010
rjmetrics.com - Hosted Business Intelligence for Web-based Businesses Logo   Company RJMetrics
    http://www.rjmetrics.com/
  Founded: 10/2008
  City: Camden, New Jersey
  Country: United States
  CEO: Robert J. Moore
  Founders: Robert J. Moore and Jake Stein
Category: Data/Analytics   Funding: Self-Funded
Tags: analytics, metrics, data, database, analysis   Employees: 2-5
         

What does RJMetrics do?

RJMetrics develops software to help online businesses measure, manage, and monetize better. Our products are used by business operators, investors, and advisers to better understand company performance and manage that performance to meet financial goals.

How are they different?

Our product provides access to valuable analyses that were previously unavailable to start-ups and mid-size companies. Our powerful technology is offered at a highly competitive price, providing real ROI for businesses of all sizes.

Why could RJMetrics be BIG?

Business intelligence is a $9 billion industry that continues to grow as more companies seek out the hidden value in their data.

RJMetrics is aggressively capturing market share with our innovative business intelligence dashboard product. We are also broadening the business intelligence market by making our advanced analytical tools available to businesses of all sizes.

How they plan to make money:

RJMetrics charges a monthly subscription fee for access to its hosted business intelligence platform.

Our thoughts:

No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.rjmetrics.com/
2-5, Data/Analytics, Self-Funded
 

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